Electrocution 250
Electrocution 250 was a short-lived instrumental trio from Minnesota — guitarist Todd Duane, keyboardist Lalle Larsson, and drummer Peter Wildoer — who recorded a single album, 'Electric Cartoon Music From Hell' (2003/2004), fusing jazz-fusion virtuosity with Carl Stalling-style cartoon-music motifs and occasional thrash-metal bombast. Larsson and Wildoer are separately known for progressive/metal session and band work (Karmakanic, Darkane, among others), but this project stands as a standalone one-off. It is unrelated to the atlas's Ulver electronic era.
SCORE PROFILE
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WHY THOSE SCORES
- Jazzy 7 — Multiple outlets (ProgArchives, Sea of Tranquility) describe the sole album as jazz-fusion-driven virtuoso playing in a Zappa-styled idiom.
- Theatrical 4 — Explicitly Carl Stalling/cartoon-music-inspired concept album, with zany comedic instrumental vignettes titled after cartoon tropes ('Fletcher The Mouse', 'Looney Tune - Piano Solo', 'Dr Fluffels').
MEMBERS
- Todd Duaneguitar
- Lalle Larssonkeyboards
- Peter Wildoerdrums
FURTHER LISTENING
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- UnaffiliatedEI 13ValtozashJazzyTechnicalTheatrical
Valtozash is a fifteen-to-seventeen-piece 'jazz-thrash-metal' big band out of Brisbane, Australia, led by composer and electric vibraphonist Andre Bonetti. A full horn section collides free-jazz harmony and improvisation with thrash-metal aggression, drawing press comparisons to a conducted orchestra 'brutally assaulting' jazz standards. Albums like Wizard-Bird (2017) and Boiling Solitude (2021) showcase the ensemble's scale, arranging dense big-band charts against metal riffing.
- UnaffiliatedEI 14PanzerballettTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
Panzerballett is a Munich jazz-metal quintet founded in 2004 and led by guitarist-composer Jan Zehrfeld, fusing delicate interlocking funk grooves with brutally hard, polyrhythmic Meshuggah-informed riffs and genuine jazz improvisation. Alongside Zehrfeld's originals they stage virtuosic reinterpretations spanning Deep Purple, Meshuggah and Weather Report, and are known for comedic, theatrical live shows. Signed to ACT Records, their guest-heavy albums (e.g. Planet Z, Übercode Œuvre) recruit elite fusion drummers.
- ZornEI 15Titan to TachyonsTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
Titan to Tachyons is a New York instrumental quartet led by guitarist Sally Gates, built around a two-bassist frontline (Trevor Dunn and Matt Hollenberg) with drummer Kenny Grohowski, fusing free-jazz improv, prog counterpoint, and metal violence into sci-fi-themed instrumentals. Their 2022 album Vonals was released on John Zorn's Tzadik label (following 2020's Cactides on Nefarious Industries), and the polyrhythmic, two-bass arrangement gives the compositions an unusually dense, contrapuntal low end. Every member's other credits (Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, Secret Chiefs 3, Cleric, Imperial Triumphant) wire this band into the Zorn/downtown-jazz and Patton-adjacent avant-metal orbit.
- Tool-verseEI 11Volto!TechnicalJazzy
Volto! is an American jazz-fusion jam band based in Los Angeles, best known as the side project of Tool drummer Danny Carey. Formed in the early 2000s from improvised sessions with guitarist John Ziegler and bassist Lance Morrison at a San Fernando Valley jazz club, the group spent nearly a decade as a live-only act before releasing its debut album Incitare (2013) on Fantasy Records. Their heady, genre-spinning instrumental sound bridges King Crimson, Liquid Tension Experiment, and 1970s fusion, foregrounding the improvisation that Carey has cited as his main motivation for the project.
- UnaffiliatedEI 10Mattias IA EklundhTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
Mattias 'IA' Eklundh is a Swedish guitarist, vocalist, and the founder of Gothenburg progressive/avant-garde metal band Freak Kitchen (1992-present), whose sound mixes heavy metal with gypsy-jazz-adjacent influences and absurdist humor. He is also a solo 'Freak Guitar' artist released on Steve Vai's Favored Nations label and named Frank Zappa as one of his two biggest musical influences, though no direct collaboration with Zappa, Mats/Morgan, or the Zorn/Secret Chiefs 3 circle was found.
- ZornEI 14RuinsTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
Ruins is a Japanese progressive-rock duo formed in 1985 by drummer/vocalist Tatsuya Yoshida, intended as a power trio until the guitarist never showed, leaving a manic bass-and-drums unit. Heavily indebted to French zeuhl pioneers Magma, Ruins performs written-out, fiendishly complex compositions sung in an invented Kobaian-like tongue, veering through prog, jazz fusion and noise rock. Yoshida, the band's only constant, is one of the pillars of Japanese avant-rock; Ruins released several albums on John Zorn's Tzadik label, including Hyderomastgroningem (1995). The bass seat rotated across the group's history.
- Estradasphere / MimicryEI 18miRthkonTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
miRthkon are an Oakland sextet of two guitars, two woodwinds, bass and drums, self-described as 'an amplified chamber ensemble masquerading as a rock band,' with material fully scored down to the drum parts. Across Vehicle (2009) and Snack(s) (2013) on the Italian AltrOck label, critics describe a satirical, Zappa-inflected collision of thrash riffing, big-band horns, and jazz harmony staged with circus-like theatrical framing. Keyboardist/bassist Matt Lebofsky doubles as keyboardist in Secret Chiefs 3, giving the band a direct, sourced line into the Estradasphere/Secret Chiefs 3 orbit already on the atlas.
- UnaffiliatedEI 19CKRAFTTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
CKRAFT is a Paris-based jazz-metal quintet -- Charles Kieny (augmented accordion), Theo Nguyen Duc Long (tenor saxophone), Antoine Morisot (guitar), Marc Karapetian (bass), and William Bur (drums) -- whose members met studying at conservatories including Berklee and the Paris Conservatoire. Their albums Epic Discordant Vision (2022) and Uncommon Grounds (2025), the latter winner of the Audience Prize at the Triomphes du Metal Francais, fuse djent-adjacent metal heaviness with free-jazz improvisation and Gregorian-chant-derived medieval melody.
- Dissonant tech-deathEI 11The Pitts Minnemann ProjectTechnicalJazzy
The Pitts Minnemann Project is an instrumental progressive-rock/jazz-fusion collaboration between keyboardist Jimmy Pitts (Scholomance) and drummer Marco Minnemann, joined by rotating guest virtuosi on guitar, bass, saxophone, and violin. They released two albums, '2 L 8 2 B Normal' (2014) and 'The Psychic Planetarium' (2016), both blending heavy fusion with progressive-metal complexity.
- UnaffiliatedEI 15Edge of RealityTechnicalJazzyTheatrical
Edge of Reality is a Nashville art-metal quintet whose 2019 album In Static packs jazz-inflected saxophone, carnival theatrics, and djent-adjacent riffing into a maximalist, constantly shifting progressive-metal frame. Reviewers place them alongside Native Construct, Thank You Scientist and Haken: dense, technically ambitious, occasionally overstuffed songwriting paired with a comedic, narrative-driven concept. Guitarist Joey Frevola also plays in UK prog act KYROS and LA's An Endless Sporadic, though neither is part of the EMMA atlas.